Ensure manufacturing uptime

Keep your operations running smoothly while protecting critical data with
Acronis' reliable backup and recovery solution. Instantly restore computers used to manage and monitor your operational technology (OT) and Industrial Computing Systems (ICS) to maximize factor-floor uptime. Additionally protect front office and back office against cyberthreats and other source of downtime.

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Industry recognition

Acronis' leadership in OT resilience is recognized by a cybersecurity research and advisory firm.

A unified solution for protecting manufacturing IT and OT environments

Acronis Cyber Protect enables secure backup and recovery of operating systems, applications and data and provides one-click recovery to get you back online in minutes.

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Protection of computers used to manage OT and ICS

Centrally manage computers used to manage and monitor OT. Backup and assess vulnerabilities in physical and virtual machines using a single protection plan.

System availability

Ensure high system availability and reduce downtime with recovery options, including instant restore features for systems and applications.

Fail-safe patching

Prevent system damage from malware that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities. Automatic image backup before patch implementation allows restoration and rollback if issues arise.

Continuous data protection

Securely backup and protect computers used to manage OT and ICS in real-time. Acronis agents monitor application changes, ensuring recent data is preserved during machine re-imaging.

Acronis supports every business IT system from the XP era to the present

Acronis Cyber Protect has the most comprehensive coverage of modern OSs and hypervisors, as well as legacy systems that are no longer supported by most vendors.

Secure factory floor environments, including air-gapped

Acronis has decades of experience in providing data protection solutions to manufacturing, including factories with air-gapped environments. In fact, Acronis is frequently used by leading automation vendors like ABB and Rockwell Automation as their backup solution. Acronis addresses the challenges of these unique environments, minimizing expensive downtime with the following capabilities:

Protection for IT systems that monitor, configure and control OT and ICS
Acronis image-based backup technology protects diverse operating systems, including outdated Windows, Linux and virtual OSes no longer supported by their vendors.
Fast, reliable and easy-to-operate IT systems recovery
Acronis quickly restores failed IT systems in a matter of minutes, while One-Click Recovery enables non-IT professionals (such as OT engineers) to initiate the restoral of a failed computer with push-button simplicity.
Safe, zero-impact testing and rollback of patches and upgrades
Acronis allows the creation of a “digital twin” of any IT system — a backup copy running on a VM — that can be used to test the functionality and performance of software patches and other updates before they are applied to production machines.
IT system performance reporting, even in air-gapped environments
Acronis can safely relay reports to centralized IT staff via outbound-only file transfers, revealing the protection status of the factory-floor computers used to manage and monitor OT and ICS.

Customer success story

ABB uses Acronis to reduce costly downtime

Description
ABB customers avoid business interruptions by restoring the functions of any system in a matter of seconds.
Key challenges
Challenges included inefficient recovery, backup automation hurdles, and complex system management.
Risks
ABB required automatic backups for rapid restarts and universal restore. The solution needed to recover images from any hardware, brand or model, with consistent functionality across systems.
Our solution
With Acronis, restore processes are standardized. Backup operations are programmed regularly on remote systems in any environment and type. In manufacturing, data backup is essential.

Acronis excels in OT and ICS computer restoral for manufacturing

Comprehensive data backup and recovery for manufacturing businesses, including:

Production environments:
OT systems used to control real-time automation equipment, e.g., SCADA systems, Human-Machine Interfaces, operational historians and Distributed Control Systems.
Back-office applications
Computers used to run internal business processes, e.g., ERP, supply chain management, procurement, production planning, quality control, maintenance, finance, accounting, HR and IT.
Front-office applications
Computers used to run customer-facing business processes, e.g., sales, marketing, customer service and PR.
On-premises physical and virtual systems
Physical PCs and virtual machines in networked and air-gapped on-premises environments as well as cloud-based productivity suites like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Reduces downtime of factory-floor operations

With advanced monitoring systems and real-time diagnostics, our proactive approach ensures minimal downtime and allows for quick restoral of computers used to manage and monitor OT and ICS.

Protects the front and back office, too

Acronis protects every PC, server, virtual machine and cloud workload used on the factory floor and in the back office and front office.

Enables computer restoral without local IT support

Acronis One-Click Recovery ensures that local workers, including non-IT, can restore any system with push-button simplicity, ensuring that failure of computers used to manage and monitor OT and ICS do not disrupt factory-floor operations.

Explore recovery features for manufacturing

Watch a step-by-step demo of recovery features for computers used to manage OT and ICS. Learn how non-IT workers at the plant level can get a failed PC back online in minutes with push-button simplicity, minimizing factory floor downtime.

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Manufacturers can easily add disaster recovery to backup, cybersecurity and remote management from Acronis

Acronis offers manufacturers the unique integration of disaster recovery, data protection, cybersecurity and remote management in a single platform — all from a single management console. This cost-effective approach makes it possible for manufacturers to maintain standby copies of their critical systems and applications in the cloud, so they can failover rapidly to them in the event of a disaster that takes their primary environment offline and fail back to their primary systems when the outage has been resolved.Learn more

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Secure your back-office applications

Acronis Cyber Protect provides IT staffs with a single, integrated solution to deliver backup, disaster recovery and endpoint security (including AI-enabled ransomware protection) for factory-floor OT and ICS computers, as well as every platform and application used by front- and back-office manufacturing workers.

Quick, reliable backup and restoral

Customize your recovery point objective (RPO) for each critical application and data set to ensure recovery of the most up-to-date data possible.

Integrated disaster recovery

Get complete data and infrastructure protection with one integrated solution for any environment — on-premises, in remote systems or the cloud.

Fast, flexible data protection

Ensure quick failover of your critical workloads to the cloud. Gain instant data availability of all critical workloads no matter what kind of disaster strikes.

Robust cybersecurity

Protect your physical servers, VMs, workstations and laptops against a broad range of cybersecurity threats, including ransomware attacks.

Why clients value Acronis

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Toyota Motor Manufacturing France drives productivity with easy-to-use Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect enabled Toyota’s machines, critical systems and backups prevent any unauthorized backup activity associated with ransomware.

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Case study
Acronis enhances backup for BDR pharmaceuticals and reduces CapEx by 30%
Acronis has proven to be beneficial for BDR Pharmaceuticals, leading to large financial savings, improvements in RPO and RTO metrics, and a 10% reduction in network bandwidth consumption.
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Case study
Tata Steel modernizes its backup infrastructure
Learn how Tata Steel upgraded its infrastructure with cloud-based backup, automation and enhanced data center security. Doing so increased protected workloads by 50x and improved both RTO and RPO.
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Demo webinar
Reliable Backup and Recovery for Manufacturing Environments
Watch the replay of a virtual conference that demonstrates the Acronis data protection solution for factory floor environments
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Infographic
Maintain OT uptime with One-Click Recovery
Get a graphical overview of how Acronis One-Click Recovery helps non-IT personnel quickly restore computers in OT and ICS environments without IT staff intervention.
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White paper
Preserving Operational Technology (OT) uptime in highly-automated factory floor environment
Take a deeper dive on the issues around preserving the uptime of OT systems in highly automated factory floor environments.
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Industry-proven protection

SE Labs Enterprise Advanced Security for EDR Detection

SoftwareReviews Backup and Availability Champion

Approved corporate endpoint protection for macOS

SoftwareReviews Gold medal for Endpoint protection

OPSWAT Platinum certification for anti-malware

G2 Grid Leader for Online & Server Backup

ICSA Labs endpoint anti-malware certified

Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization member

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I back up OT systems without affecting operations?
Scheduling downtime to run backup operations in manufacturing production environments like factory floors is expensive and disruptive. A better alternative is to find a backup solution that can be installed and then can run backups at any time without need to reboot the OT system or take it offline in a scheduled downtime window. Acronis Cyber Protect enables backup and restoral of OT systems while the system is operational, without the need for schedule downtime. The Acronis backup agent can likewise be initially installed while the OT system is running and without requiring a reboot.
Can OT systems be backed up in real time?
Not every backup vendor for OT systems support real-time backup; many require scheduled downtime to run, a costly and disruptive process in manufacturing production environments like factory floors. Acronis Cyber Protect supports real time backup of OT system without scheduled downtime, and offloads backup processing overhead and storage from the OT system.
What backup solutions support both legacy and modern OT systems?
While many backup vendors support recent versions of popular operating systems while they are still supported by the OS vendor, most backup vendors end support within one to five years of the OS vendor’s end-of-support date for a particular release and/or version. Acronis Cyber Protect is the only backup vendors that continues to support OS versions dating back to the XP era as well as a broad range of contemporary OSs used in OT, back-office and front-office manufacturing environments. This is particularly important for OT systems, many of which continue to need backup and restoral for many years after the OS vendor’s end-of-support data. Acronis Cyber Protect can back up and restore these systems and thus avoid risky OS upgrades to OT systems in which stability is critical. Backup support for these legacy OSs means that OT engineers can avoid the risk that an upgrade to a newer version of the OS might a) break or limit OT application functionality, or b) de-certify the system from compliance with regulatory standards.
What are the best practices for quick OT system recovery?
Fast OT system recovery is critical in manufacturing production environments, where downtime can cost thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of dollars per hour. This can be challenging in manufacturing environments without local IT staff, in air-gapped environments that limit centralized IT’s ability to help with remote management tools, and remote manufacturing locations where dispatching IT staff to the site can be costly in both travel expense and extended production downtime. A better alternative is a restoral capability that can be initiated by local staff, even if they don’t have significant IT skills. Acronis Cyber Protect has a One-Click Recovery capability that lets any employee, regardless of their IT skill level, to restore an OT system from a local backup with just a few keystrokes, enabling the restoral of OT systems and the resumption of production operations with a matter of minutes instead of hours or days.
Can a backup solution help avoid unplanned production halts?
OT systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) servers, human-machine interfaces (HMI), operational historians, distributed control systems (DCS) and the like can bring production operations to a halt if they fail, resulting in very costly downtime. The ability to quickly restore these OT systems after a failure for whatever reason – cyber attack, PC hardware failure, software glitch or human error – is essential to keep production systems up and running. Having a local backup and restoral solution like Acronis Cyber Protect can get failed OT systems back online in a matter of minutes, to new PC hardware if necessary via its Bare-Metal Recovery feature. The One-Click Recovery feature of Acronis Cyber Protect also ensures that OT systems can be quickly restored by any local employee with a few simple keystrokes in a matter of minutes, eliminating the delays, travel expense, and extended production outage costs associated with dispatching central IT to the site.
How can we automate backups for SCADA, HMIs and operational historians?
A well-designed backup solution optimized for OT environments is essential to minimize the downtime of critical OT systems like SCADA, HMIs and operational historians, the failure of which can cause costly manufacturing production shutdowns. Acronis Cyber Protect is widely used in manufacturing OT environments for exactly this purpose, and is frequently white-labled or co-branded by leading automation vendors. Acronis Cyber Protect leverage over 20 years of development as a backup vendor to offer features that make protecting OT systems highly reliable, fast and automatic, including flexible scheduling options, event-triggered backups, incremental and differential backups, flexibility of choice of backup destinations, automatic cloud replication, and more. Customizable backup routines can automatically run backup operations at specific times or in response to event triggers, and to automatically store backups in locations ranging from locally attached drives, network attached storage, storage area networks, private clouds, cloud service providers like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, and the Acronis Cloud.

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Ensure manufacturing uptime

A unified solution for protecting manufacturing IT and OT environments

Protection of computers used to manage OT and ICS

System availability

Fail-safe patching

Continuous data protection

Secure factory floor environments, including air-gapped

Customer success story

Acronis excels in OT and ICS computer restoral for manufacturing

Production environments:

Back-office applications

Front-office applications

On-premises physical and virtual systems

Reduces downtime of factory-floor operations

Protects the front and back office, too

Enables computer restoral without local IT support

Explore recovery features for manufacturing

Manufacturers can easily add disaster recovery to backup, cybersecurity and remote management from Acronis

Quick, reliable backup and restoral

Integrated disaster recovery

Fast, flexible data protection

Robust cybersecurity

Why clients value Acronis

Industry-proven protection

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I back up OT systems without affecting operations?

Can OT systems be backed up in real time?

What backup solutions support both legacy and modern OT systems?

What are the best practices for quick OT system recovery?

Can a backup solution help avoid unplanned production halts?

How can we automate backups for SCADA, HMIs and operational historians?